truck

1. truck (verb) — sense 1

Definition: To trade, exchange; barter.

Example: We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another.

2. truck (verb) — sense 2

Definition: To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.

Example: But while this businesse was in hand, Arrived one Captaine Argall, and Master Thomas Sedan, sent by Master Cornelius to truck with the Collony [...]

3. truck (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

4. truck (noun) — sense 4

Definition: Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.

Example: There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck.

5. truck (noun) — sense 5

Definition: The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].

6. truck (noun) — sense 6

Definition: Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

Example: As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted.